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Unaccustomed Roles
In January we recalled how two racing drivers got unexpected opportunities to drive the very latest Grand Prix cars, when…

In January we recalled how two racing drivers got unexpected opportunities to drive the very latest Grand Prix cars, when…
The article by Peter Hull in the current issue of the Bulletin of the VSCC, on the Ford-powered Montier Specials,…
Griffith Borgeson has a high reputation as an enquiring historian happy to investigate the smallest details of high-speed internal combustion…
It is highly commendable when local government authorities take a positive interest in the transport history of their area, which…
The RAC Norwich Union Classic Car Rally, which was so successful in 1986, is to happen again this year on…
In comparatively recent times a new phenomenon has been seen among the one-make clubs and registers, namely great enthusiasm for…
Having held driving-tests at Enstone in December, the Vintage Sports Car Club decided it would like some more in January.…
It is nearly three years since MOTORSPORT last tried a TVR for size; the impression left from the high-speed tour…
Wlith a history longer than that of Porsche, the small firm of TVR might have been expected to have diluted…
If you stroll down one particular street in Fulham, there is an antique shop which you might walk past with…
Automobile Year No34 (1986/1987) edited by Jean-Rodolphe Piccard. 255 pp. 12 1/2 9 1/4. (Motor Racing Publications Ltd, Unit 6,…
Rallycourse 1986-87 edited by Mike Greasley. 176 pp. (Hazleton Publishing, 3 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey. £17.95) This fifth edition of…
Yesterday's Yesteryears — Lesney Matchbox Models by Robert Carter and Eddy Rubinstein. 157 pp. 9 1/4 6 1/2. (G T…
The Fastest Man on Earth by David Tremayne (633 Club, 85 Kingshill Drive, Harrow. £8.95) It is more than three…
Turbocharging and Supercharging by Alan Allard. (Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough. £7.99) This new smaller format paperback edition of Allard's comprehensive…
It must be very good news for those who have not previously heard of it, or have been unable to…
Equally comprehensive data about all that pertains to 750 MC racing and events, with results of the 1986 fixtures, is…
Motormedia Ltd's new catalogue of motor books, listing 1,623 titles of old and out-of-print items, and including special articles on…
Readers with leanings towards aviation must not miss They Gave Me a Seafire by Commander "Mike" Crosley (Airlife of Shrewsbury,…
Sir, I wonder how many readers of MOTORSPORT realise that they are witnessing the demise of the British motor industry.…
All-round competitor Tony Lees is the winner of the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s inaugural Speed Championship after a tremendous campaign against the clock in the famous ex-Ron Footitt 1925 AC/GN Cognac…
IndyCar finally announced its 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series calendar on Thursday of this week. Fifteen races are included and IndyCar’s CEO Randy Bernard (below with 2012 car) says he’s still…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). From the editor Damien Smith The Grand Prix motor races we can never forget… Welcome to…
Forty years ago, Michele Alboreto won the 155th and last grand prix for the Ford-Cosworth DFV engine (in DFY spec), which dominated pre-turbo F1. Paul Fearnley looks back at Tyrrell's 1983 Detroit GP triumph